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Scientists Injected Algae into a Frog's Heart and This Happened

2026-04-16 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a bizarre case of a photosynthesis frog Note: this is an older unreleased video that I dug out from the archives. My voice is gone this week so enjoy this older gem while I recover. Links: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01126-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004221011263%3Fshowall%3Dtrue https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00047-6 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw4337 https://www.int-res.com/articles/suppl/m611p167_supp/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacoglossa #biology #science #photosynthesis 0:00 Can animals use photosynthesis? 0:40 Chloroplasts and photosynthesis 2:30 Animals and chlorophyll - sacoglossa example 4:25 Kleptoplasty - how is this done? 5:55 Potential explanations 7:20 Medical use of chloroplasts - photosynthetic frogs 10:00 Useful or not? Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Images/Videos: Özugur et al./iScience, https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01126-3?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004221011263%3Fshowall%3Dtrue Des_Callaghan CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast#/media/File:Bryum_capillare_leaf_cells.jpg Frank Fox - CC BY-SA 3.0 http://www.mikro-foto.de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast#/media/File:Mikrofoto.de-volvox-8.jpg Kelvinsong CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroplast#/media/File:Chloroplast_secondary_endosymbiosis.svg millerse CC BY 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacoglossa#/media/File:Elysia_clarki,_Florida.jpg SiliconProphet CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacoglossa#/media/File:Oxynoe_viridis_cropped.jpg Karen N. Pelletreau et al. - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0097477 CC BY 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica#/media/File:Elysia-chlorotica-body.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica#/media/File:Elysia-chlorotica-detail.jpg alif_abdulrahman - Costasiella Kuroshimae CC BY-SA 2.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#/media/File:Costasiella_Kuroshimae_(19080120525)_(2).jpg Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@whatdamath 2026-04-15

I lost my voice this week, so need to recover a bit. So for a few days, you'll probably be seeing some of the older unreleased videos like this one of a...photosynthetic frog? Enjoy! Be back soon

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@jeanladoire4141 2026-04-16

We had immortal zombies tadpoles that do not need to eat before gta6

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@gregoryruairimullan2358 2026-04-16

Get well soon anton

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@shahsafwanmazhar249 2026-04-17

We're one step closer to having a real life bulbasaur

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@MrRaysuli 2026-04-16

This is the truest science channel ever in youtube, its pure heart and knowledge, thank you anton.

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@mykelevangelista6492 2026-04-15

Get well soon, then, Anton.

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@earthknight60 2026-04-17

It's worth noting that some salamanders incorporate chloroplasts in their bodies (the eggs get colonized by algae and this results in the adults having it in them), and that melanin in animals acts in a similar way to chlorophyll, but not as strongly.

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@glike2 2026-04-17

Eating plants for energy is just easier than merging via a teleportation machine like in "The Fly" 😂

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@genericbeansmile756 2026-04-16

When I first clicked on this video I assumed that it would focus on the zombie frogs which were found to have strange fungal infections to the point that the fruiting mushrooms were emerging from the fungus embedded in their systems, but the slug case study was so interesting that I'm not even disappointed that those aren't the same zombie frogs as the ones documented here

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@RayN-369 2026-04-17

get well soon, Frog.

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